 | Edward Daniel Clarke - 1824 - 638 pages
...birds, iuch at Gannets and others, which follow to prey on them. But when the main body approaches, its breadth and depth is such as to alter the very...six miles in length, and three or four in breadth ; and they drive the water before them with a kind of rippling." Shaw's Zoology t tot. V.- part I.... | |
 | William Oxberry - 1824 - 382 pages
...America, from the straits of Bellisle to Cape Hatteras ; the other, proceeding easterly, in a number of distinct columns of five or six miles in length, and three or four in breadth, till they reach the Shetland islands, which they generally do about the end of April, is there subdivided... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1824 - 510 pages
...greedy attendants, the gannet, the gull; the shark, and the porpoise. When the main body is arrived, its breadth and depth is such as to alter the very appearance of the ocean. It-is divided into distinct columns, of five or six miles in length, and three or four broad; while... | |
 | Edward Daniel Clarke - 1824 - 630 pages
...birds, such as Gamuts and others, which follow to prey on them. But when the main body approaches, its breadth and depth is such as to alter the very appearance of the oceau. It is divided into distinct columns, of five or six miles in length, and' three or four in breadth... | |
 | Mary Trimmer - 1825 - 278 pages
...the sands of the sea. On commencing their emigration the swarms divide into distinct columns, each five or six miles in length, and three or four in breadth. Their course is made visible to an observer by the ripple which they cause in the water. They reach... | |
 | 1826 - 188 pages
...migrate southwards in such quantities, as to alter the very appearance of the sea, being divided into columns of five or six miles in length, and three or four miles in breadth. — This living tide moots in its progress the British Islands, and is thus divided... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 426 pages
...when the main body approaches, its breadth and depth is such as to alter the appearance of the very ocean. It is divided into distinct columns of five...six miles in length, and three or four in breadth, and they drive the water before them with a kind of rippling. The first i-ln'ik this army meets in... | |
 | William Bingley - 1829 - 350 pages
...sides. In their outset, this immense swarm of living creatures is divided into distinct columns, each five or six miles in length, and three or four in breadth, and in their progress they even make the water ripple before them. In the month of June they are found... | |
 | 1830 - 188 pages
...of no account. The breadth and depth of the main body is such as to alter the appearance of the very ocean ; it is divided into distinct columns of five...six miles in length, and three or four in breadth, driving the water before them with a very perceptible rippling : sometimes they sink for the space... | |
 | Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon - 1831 - 358 pages
...greedy attendants, the gannet, the gull, the shark, and the porpus. When the main body is arrived, its breadth and depth is such, as to alter the very...of five or six miles in length, and three or four broad ; while the water before them curls up, as if forced out of its bed. Sometimes they sink for... | |
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... ocean. It is divided into distinct columns of five or six miles in length and three or four in breadth, and they drive the water before them with a kind of rippling... 
